Using a Personal Knowledge Base To Enhance Learning - Due Sunday - 7/27
Technology has transformed all aspects of our lives, including what it means to be informed, knowledgeable, and creative. During this course, we each were encouraged to use a Personal Knowledge Base (PKB) in Evernote to accumulate resources related to American Public Education, school reforms and other topics of your choosing. A PKB is a student's online repository for articles, notes, references, and reflections, and is meant to extend his or her intelligence and creativity. Since everyone thinks in his or her own way, our PKBs should also be different.
For this assignment, you are asked to reflect your use of your PKB in a brief essay. You may use some or all of the following questions for inspiration:
How did you use Evernote and the Evernote Web Clipper to support your work in this course?
What other uses for your PKB did you develop as you got more comfortable with Evernote?
Describe your PKB's organizational scheme. How many notebooks have your created? What (if any) tags are your using? What uses (if any) have you discovered for note links?
Describe at least one learning strategy that YOU developed/explored to augment your current thinking with your PKB. This could be a study strategy that you have adapted, a way you organized your research, or so other way of organizing your new knowledge for writing, planning, etc. The also be strategy that you think would be useful for you (or others) for some future purpose.
What learning problems or dilemmas did your PKB fail to address? What did you find frustrating or inefficient?
Though the idea of maintaining a cumulative knowledge base is not new (see here for an Enlightenment version, and here or a video version here for the 20th century equivalent. ) it is becoming more practical as smart phones become more prevalent. What implications, if any, do you see this PKB idea for K-12 or Higher Education?
At various times during the course, you may be asked to share your PKB thinking, current notebook organization and protocol development progress. By sharing these ideas, we can all explore how the idea of a PKB might augment our capabilities. Before the course ends, describe your PKB practices on a page linked below.
Note: Remember to cite any web pages, blogs, etc, that you use as a basis or inspiration for your strategies. Some strategies can be found at evernoteAtURI.wikispaces.com.
Using a Personal Knowledge Base To Enhance Learning - Due Sunday - 7/27
Technology has transformed all aspects of our lives, including what it means to be informed, knowledgeable, and creative. During this course, we each were encouraged to use a Personal Knowledge Base (PKB) in Evernote to accumulate resources related to American Public Education, school reforms and other topics of your choosing. A PKB is a student's online repository for articles, notes, references, and reflections, and is meant to extend his or her intelligence and creativity. Since everyone thinks in his or her own way, our PKBs should also be different.
For this assignment, you are asked to reflect your use of your PKB in a brief essay. You may use some or all of the following questions for inspiration:
At various times during the course, you may be asked to share your PKB thinking, current notebook organization and protocol development progress. By sharing these ideas, we can all explore how the idea of a PKB might augment our capabilities. Before the course ends, describe your PKB practices on a page linked below.
Links for this year's responses:
Note: Remember to cite any web pages, blogs, etc, that you use as a basis or inspiration for your strategies. Some strategies can be found at evernoteAtURI.wikispaces.com.